geographer

noun ge·og·ra·pher \ jē-ˈä-grə-fər \

Updated on: 18 Mar 2018

Definition of geographer

: a specialist in geography

Recent Examples of geographer from the Web

But his tortuous route actually did link the two sides of the world, and geographers now credit Mackenzie and his maps with making breakthroughs in our knowledge of the subarctic.

— rinker buck, WSJ, "Venturing Into the Great Northwest," 9 Mar. 2018
Tulane University geographer and historian Richard Campanella was the krewe's choice for 2018 king.

— melinda morris, NOLA.com, "Krewe du Vieux, Delusion roll: See photos from the parades," 28 Jan. 2018
Using that book as their base, geographers Vale have made the same trip, observed the same landscape and taken pictures of the same locations.

— patricia holt, San Francisco Chronicle, "How I spent my winter vacation, Patricia Holt, 1984," 17 Jan. 2018
In 2010 Emmanuel Vigneron, a geographer,compared death rates, medical care and incomes of people near every station on the RER B, adapting a technique first used to study health-care differences along the belt road of Tahiti.

— The Economist, "Take the B trainA day crossing Paris by train," 16 Dec. 2017
Larner, Cramer, the historian and the geographer did not vote for a name as part of board policy.

— andrew michaels, Columbia Flier, "Committee shares top 3 names for new Hanover elementary school," 22 Dec. 2017
But economists and geographers are now questioning what the nature of their success means for the rest of the country.

— New York Times, "What Happens When the Richest U.S. Cities Turn to the World?," 22 Dec. 2017
Today, in virtually all U.S. metro areas, the inner cores are more unequal than their corresponding suburbs, observes geographer Daniel Herz.

— joel kotkin, National Review, "Playgrounds for Elites," 12 Dec. 2017
Sometime in the early 1970s, geographers at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) got a tip that hundreds of historical atlases were about to be dumped in the trash up in San Francisco.

— greg miller, National Geographic, "Historical Atlases Rescued from the Trash Could Be a Boon to Historians," 3 Mar. 2017

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